Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary
Out of Patients with Matthew Zachary is the longest-running, independent healthcare podcast.
Since 2007, Matthew’s been calling out the hypocrisy, hubris, and hostage-taking baked into American healthcare—with a mic in one hand and a middle finger in the other.
What started as a pirate radio rebellion is now the most trusted, notorious, and unfiltered show in the game. Patients love it. Industry listens. And anyone who’s ever been gaslit by the system knows exactly where to turn to nod their heads in shared rage.
Every episode delivers unsanitized stories, dark humor, policy takedowns, and angsty GenX truth bombs—told by the people living it, not spinning it.
It’s the show you love about the healthcare you hate.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 447
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
We're Not Worthy: The One and Only Dr. Julia Rowland
Just when I thought I was the only 20-something with cancer adrift in the 1990s with nary a support group or a cancer buddy, along came an intro to my friend and mentor, Dr. Julia Rowland. Widely rec…
00:34:46 |
Tue 19 Jan 2021
Healthcare Optimism and the Marvelous Mrs. Halle Tecco
On the show today, another epic DeLorean throwback to the past episode with Halle Tecco, an origin story convened during the heyday of LIVESTRONG and born of a shared desire to make cancer suck less.…
00:32:50 |
Thu 14 Jan 2021
Stupid Brain Cancer With Cancer Nerd and Google Scholar Liz Salmi
I’ve never said the words “Cancer Nerd and Google Scholar” in succession before, but that only partially describes the epicness of my guest today, one Liz Salmi — self-proclaimed “Citizen Scientist” …
00:32:49 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Cycle of Lives: Grief, Loss, Redemption, Opportunity, and Advocacy
“What do you do with the mad that you feel?” — One of the more definitive quotes from the definitive Mr. Rogers. For my guest today, David Richman, the choice he made after losing his sister to cance…
00:24:48 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
"The System" – What Is It Good for? Absolutely Something, Maybe?
On the show today, Alan Balch, CEO at the Patient Advocate Foundation and the National Patient Advocate Foundation. After we reconcile that Alan is one of the few people actually doing what they stud…
00:32:02 |
Tue 05 Jan 2021
The One With Advocate Luminary Gwen Darien
On the show today, a luminary in the annals of cancer advocacy, the one, and only Gwen Darien. While she may be the EVP for Patient Advocacy at the National Patient Advocate Foundation and the Patien…
00:32:50 |
Tue 29 Dec 2020
A "So-Called" Normal Life: Erin Zammett Ruddy's Little Book of Life Skills
On the show today, I welcome one of my advocate heroes, Erin Zammett-Ruddy, a young adult cancer survivor I met during the LIVESTRONG days in the early 2000s. She may have barely crossed the 5-year s…
00:35:39 |
Tue 22 Dec 2020
FemTech, Dad Bods, and the Mental Health of Aging Well
On the show today, I welcome two very inspirational guests. Fard Johnmar is a digital health innovator I met in 2005 before “The Internet” was a thing. He was ahead of his time then, and he’s ahead o…
00:34:25 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Financial Psychology and the Mental Health of Money During a Pandemic
Today’s show is a little different. My guest, Michelle Begina, is a financial advisor, speaker, author, and — at least in my own opinion — is a money therapist. Certainly, one of the more hybrid expe…
00:30:30 |
Tue 15 Dec 2020
What the Hell Is a Research Evangelist?
On the show today, Dave Bjork, self-proclaimed Research Evangelist, young adult lung cancer survivor, and champion of the cause of “direct-to-research” philanthropy. What does that mean Well, here’s …
00:27:59 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Cancer Guidelines: Excuse Me While I Whip This Out
Throughout the history of cancer advocacy, there the advocates who made us and the organizations who made us. And one such organization is the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, which is — for al…
00:31:48 |
Tue 08 Dec 2020
Mental Health, Relationship Alchemy and All the Things
Today’s a different kind of show. Not quite the “softer side of Sears,” but perhaps a more introspective look beneath the veil of mental health and all the things that piss us off, like cat posters. …
00:32:18 |
Thu 03 Dec 2020
Michele Rhee: Thyroid Cancer, a Benign Heart Tumor, and Traversing All Seven Continents
On the show today, I welcome Michelle Rhee, young adult cancer survivor of Thyroid Cancer (you know, “the good one” I’M KIDDING) whose ordeal left her having over a dozen major surgeries, including o…
00:36:45 |
Tue 01 Dec 2020
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[BONUS] "Jen Horonjeff is Noncompliant" COVID-19 Vaccine Edition
Today's episode of "Jen Horonjeff is Noncompliant" riffs off the news of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine safety and efficacy data. Jen has a convo with Matthew Zachary that starts off about vaccines and qu…
00:16:38 |
Mon 30 Nov 2020
Is Our Healthcare System Working Exactly as Planned?
Today’s show takes us in a different but related direction into the dumpster fire of health insurance pertaining to employer-based care. Joining me is David Contorno, Founder of E Powered Benefits, w…
00:32:10 |
Tue 24 Nov 2020
3-2-1 Contact: The Medidata Show with Glen de Vries
On the show today, I welcome Glen DeVries, Co-CEO at Medidata, the most used platform for clinical trials worldwide. Not too shabby, I say. Among many other things, we dig into his new book, "The Pat…
00:29:04 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
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[BONUS] "Jen Horonjeff is Noncompliant" with Gabe Howard
On today's episode of "Jen Horonjeff is Noncompliant," Jen talks with Gabe Howard, patient advocate, author of "Mental Illness is an Asshole," and host of the PsychCentral podcast. As a "mental healt…
00:19:35 |
Wed 18 Nov 2020
Introducing the #BCSM Podcast
Today, instead of my usual shenanigans, I’d like to treat you to something very special that we have been working on here at OffScrip Media.One of the privileges we have here besides creating and pro…
00:31:12 |
Tue 17 Nov 2020
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[BONUS] COVID19: Kids/School/Parenting Dumpster Fire Edition
Anyone remember the old Vince Guaraldi Trio song “Cast Your Fate To The Wind?” Look it up, kids, because it’s got almost nothing to do with this show other than being a legendary tune and a related m…
00:51:56 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Erika Gerdes: Being a People-Pleaser Doesn't Please People
On the show today, Authenticity Advocate/Speaker/Coach/Writer Erika Gerdes. Lots of self-descriptors there, but rest assured listeners, you're in store for an organic, no-BS kitchen table conversatio…
00:31:35 |
Thu 12 Nov 2020
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